“It’s easy to imagine that Christie had Granite State voters on his mind when he devoted a substantial portion of his speech to drug treatment and policy”.
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“When a super PAC running an ad said that you supported Common Core, you once supported an assault weapons ban and that you donated to Planned Parenthood… which one of those is wrong?” host John Dickerson asked Christie.
Christie focused part of his speech on the Democratic lawmakers’ efforts to constitutionally protect the public pension payment, saying that living up to the promise would require either unappealing spending cuts or tax hikes.
Christie, the main casino workers union in Atlantic City, and several construction unions have endorsed Sweeney’s bill; the mayors of Jersey City, Newark and Paterson are among those backing the Assembly measure. That’s the message to Atlantic City officials from State Senate President Steve Sweeney (D- West Deptford), who’s introducing a measure that would give the state the power to assume control of AC’s finances. The state’s year-over-year job growth, meanwhile, lags the nation and New Jersey’s peers in the mid-Atlantic region.
“I’m sure he’ll go back to the theme of being a red governor in a blue state”, Koning said.
Republicans have argued that with the current debt of Atlantic City, PILOT would protect casinos from tax raises.
Christie also wants to recycle the shuttered Mid-State Correctional facility at Fort Dix as a treatment center for prisoners with drug problems. The Medicaid rate increase would go into effect in July, and the state reimbursements in January, according to Nicole Brossoie, a spokeswoman for the state’s Department of Human Services.
Sweeney told reporters Monday night such a bill was a possibility, and warned that the city can not keep coming to the state seeking financial help.
Christie has declared his support for gun rights as he seeks the Republican nomination for president.
Christie made the same claim three times at the Kemp Forum on Expanding Opportunity held Saturday, in a group panel discussion with Jeb Bush and Ben Carson conducted by House Speaker Paul Ryan.
There was a jab at President Obama’s state of the union address.
Gov. Chris Christie is highlighting what he says is the state’s economic recovery in his annual State of the State address.
Additionally, no less than two percent of total revenues would also be dedicated to support the equine industry and the economic benefit it brings to the state.
However, North Jersey’s proximity to Manhattan and the NY greater metropolitan area makes a casino market there an attractive option.
New Jersey’s 16 Senate Republicans serve to make New Jersey the place to live, grow, work, vacation and retire. Bloomberg points to a December 10 Rutgers-Eagleton poll that lists the former US attorney’s approval rating at just 33% among registered voters in New Jersey. Mangino also urged Christie to help Sandy victims facing home foreclosure.
Van Drew, D-Cape May, Cumberland, Atlantic, said: “Allowing gaming elsewhere will devastate Atlantic City, creating further job loss and additional hardship for our residents”.
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Before the speech, the Assembly will reorganize during a ceremony at the Trenton War Memorial.
